You knew you were addicted to EQ when... [Archive]

Telin

11-12-2013, 11:37 PM

I want to hear your sad stories of the height of your addiction, if ever.

Mine would be in 2000. I was in 8th grade and I used to print out the complete spell list and bring it to school and dream about reaching those levels. I also used to get up an hour early to play from 6-7am before class. It was also the first time I stayed up all night to play.

I even installed EQ in my journalism class and played during downtime and got classmates to play. Lol. I was obsessed and it was sad lol.

Cecily

11-12-2013, 11:38 PM

/played

Somekid123

11-12-2013, 11:39 PM

I remember being at my grandma's sleeping on couch [This was age 12 or something] and telling myself that 20+ is going to be really slow for exp but all my friends had to do it, I know I can!!

Skittlez

11-12-2013, 11:45 PM

I remember when I stopped talking to my dad for 2 weeks when he shut off his account. ***** I was pissed.

Ereni

11-12-2013, 11:49 PM

Skittlez

11-12-2013, 11:55 PM

Day 1 of logging into EQ I left the good old counter strike and tribes 1 behind. Anyone remember those games? Each one addicting in their own right...

Anyways, I first made a high elf enchanter and after an hour or so of figuring out how to get things going my first target was a real life player, some dwarf. I assumed he was just another NPC I could kill but NOPE. It shocked me how fast I died. He put me in my place pretty quickly. After I got cursed out from him in tells, I made a dark elf and never looked back <evil grin>.

CS 1.6 is pretty fun still. Lots of people still play it.

Tribes on the other hand.. Jesus fucking christ was that game good. I still play Tribes 2 and Tribes Ascend. That shit is amazing.

Kutsumo

11-12-2013, 11:58 PM

Day 1 of logging into EQ I left the good old counter strike and tribes 1 behind. Anyone remember those games? Each one addicting in their own right...

Anyways, I first made a high elf enchanter and after an hour or so of figuring out how to get things going my first target was a real life player, some dwarf. I assumed he was just another NPC I could kill but NOPE. It shocked me how fast I died. He put me in my place pretty quickly. After I got cursed out from him in tells, I made a dark elf and never looked back <evil grin>.

Ah yes, I too played original tribes and CS before discovering EQ. Very few games capture the satisfaction of a disc launcher hit on a flying target!

I knew I was addicted the first night I played. Couldn't unglue myself until 4am when I heard one of my parents walking through the house and jumped in bed to avoid getting in trouble.

Skittlez

11-13-2013, 12:00 AM

Couldn't unglue myself until 4am when I heard one of my parents walking through the house and jumped in bed to avoid getting in trouble.

I miss doing that. =/

Ereni

11-13-2013, 12:05 AM

CS 1.6 is pretty fun still. Lots of people still play it.

Tribes on the other hand.. Jesus fucking christ was that game good. I still play Tribes 2 and Tribes Ascend. That shit is amazing.

Wow that's surprising. I checked out Ascend but it just wasn't the same. I want to say that I disliked Tribes 2 but it could just be because I was addicted to EQ ;) That's super cool that people still play though, I'm impressed.

I knew I was addicted the first night I played. Couldn't unglue myself until 4am when I heard one of my parents walking through the house and jumped in bed to avoid getting in trouble.

I can one up you on that! I didn't have a computer in my room. I would sneak in just before my parents would lock up the computer room for the night (this is how addicted I was) and I'd unlock the window without them knowing. When they went to sleep I would jump out of my bedroom window from the second story and then break into my own house via computer room window and play all night. If I ever heard commotion near the doorway at night I'd sprint to the closet and hide...they never caught me! Haha, good times. :D Why am I proud of this? :confused:

Millburn

11-13-2013, 12:06 AM

My babysitter when I was younger would let me play Starsiege: Tribes while he studied. That shit was so much fun, still one of my favorite fps games to date. He's also the one that got me into EQ beta back in phase 2. It's really been a one note story since! haha

Zeonick

11-13-2013, 12:07 AM

Day 1 of logging into EQ I left the good old counter strike and tribes 1 behind. Anyone remember those games? Each one addicting in their own right...

Anyways, I first made a high elf enchanter and after an hour or so of figuring out how to get things going my first target was a real life player, some dwarf. I assumed he was just another NPC I could kill but NOPE. It shocked me how fast I died. He put me in my place pretty quickly. After I got cursed out from him in tells, I made a dark elf and never looked back <evil grin>.

I was totally addicted to CS before I played EQ too!! I played css a ton also.

I knew I was addicted when I started getting the shakes and cold sweats when I hadn't played for 12 hours.. man that shit was bad.

Darkpretzel

11-13-2013, 12:08 AM

I can one up you on that! I didn't have a computer in my room. I would sneak in just before my parents would lock up the computer room for the night (this is how addicted I was) and I'd unlock the window without them knowing. When they went to sleep I would jump out of my bedroom window from the second story and then break into my own house via computer room window and play all night. If I ever heard commotion near the doorway at night I'd sprint to the closet and hide...they never caught me! Haha, good times. :D Why am I proud of this? :confused:

Funniest shit ever!

Zeonick

11-13-2013, 12:08 AM

Wow that's surprising. I checked out Ascend but it just wasn't the same. I want to say that I disliked Tribes 2 but it could just be because I was addicted to EQ ;) That's super cool that people still play though, I'm impressed.

I can one up you on that! I didn't have a computer in my room. I would sneak in just before my parents would lock up the computer room for the night (this is how addicted I was) and I'd unlock the window without them knowing. When they went to sleep I would jump out of my bedroom window from the second story and then break into my own house via computer room window and play all night. If I ever heard commotion near the doorway at night I'd sprint to the closet and hide...they never caught me! Haha, good times. :D Why am I proud of this? :confused:

I just busted up laughing after reading this!! That is hilarious and totally reminds me of gaming when I was a kid also.

Fael

11-13-2013, 12:09 AM

loved tribes. Played ascend for a while. Just love the fast pace. Flag chasing/capturing.

Quake 2 was also money.

When i was 13, my dad came into my computer room when he woke up late at night and caught me hiding under a couch with the computer screen off in an attempt to escape his notice. He grounded me the entire summer from eq, 3 fn months.

I was an athlete, came from an athlete family, and none of them ever understood my obsession with games. To this day. /emo off :(

Dolic

Ereni

11-13-2013, 12:21 AM

loved tribes. Played ascend for a while. Just love the fast pace. Flag chasing/capturing.

Dude, disc kills mid air are da beez neez, I lived for light armor defense and flag chasing. I miss those fast pace games for sure. SIGH memories.

It's okay Fael, I had to deal with that type of BS also, you aren't alone!!

Caridry

11-13-2013, 01:04 AM

To this day I still listen to classic EQ music in my car driving to work...

Also, I was mid chardok raid a few months after kunark release, some guy smashed into a telephone pole outside, i ran outside and basically ran the scene at 15 years old just to get the ball rolling faster and things cleaned up so the electric company could get the power working again... lol

Cyph

11-13-2013, 01:13 AM

Tribes 1; I know The Fotman in real life. If anyone ever had *that* experience...

indiscriminate_hater

11-13-2013, 02:09 AM

tribes is an excellent game. unique and just a well-made shooter. renegades was definitely the best mod

citizen1080

11-13-2013, 02:15 AM

Was 15~ at the time. Asked a buddy for a SoW when I meant to say Pepsi. Sad times indeed.

JerseyFresh609

11-13-2013, 04:33 AM

Got caught shop lifting when I was 17. Parents gave me a choice, lose EQ forever or give up my '88 Camaro...

I kept the car but I thought about it for a minute! Man that sucked! As soon as I had my own place I started playing again.

Zembar

11-13-2013, 04:42 AM

Spring of 03. Was at work or school and had a thought/desire to play a game when I got home (not EQ). 3 hours of EQ later after I got home i remember I didn't want to play EQ that day and wanted to play whatever other game it was.

Realized that something wasn't right being so habitual to log in and play like that. Quit cold turkey that day.

Weekapaug

11-13-2013, 05:43 AM

When my first main hit its RL 1 year birthday and had 90 days /played.

Clark

11-13-2013, 07:59 AM

http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/6864/fh60.jpg

http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/97/u4pv.jpg

Trelaboon

11-13-2013, 09:26 AM

I remember doing the old "wake up two hours early so I can game, even though I went to bed 2 hours late" gig. I also remember waking up to play in the middle of the night, and thinking it was so exhilarating, how many players were still online....I thought that was sooo cool.

Itap

11-13-2013, 11:55 AM

I think the people that take the cake are the ones that get married in the game.

fuark

11-13-2013, 12:07 PM

I skipped a day of school because Faydedar spawned and it was my last fight to complete my druid epic.

But I mean seriously who wouldn't skip school for that?

Rosk0e

11-13-2013, 12:17 PM

I knew it was bad when I had my 5 year old daughter watching the raster camp while I fed her sister... She came downstairs screaming "daddy, the man is there!!!" I looked, and there he was...

Guess who got ice cream for a week?

Weekapaug

11-13-2013, 12:24 PM

I think the people that take the cake are the ones that get married in the game.

I performed a couple of weddings with my cleric back in the day. Nothing I ever planned to do, people I grouped with would just ask.

Itap

11-13-2013, 12:34 PM

I performed a couple of weddings with my cleric back in the day. Nothing I ever planned to do, people I grouped with would just ask.

Their immersion level surpassed unreachable heights

Dalven

11-13-2013, 12:43 PM

I think the people that take the cake are the ones that get married in the game.

Have never seen this on p99 but I remember it being pretty common on live. Guess the demographic that plays here can't reach that immersion level.

Coriolis

11-13-2013, 01:05 PM

I knew I was addicted when that day came that I had played for such an extended period that when I wanted to tell my brother something (who was in another room of the house at the time) my first thought was

/tell Nick

Yea... Forced myself to step away from EQ for a bit after that moment.

Efwan

11-13-2013, 01:41 PM

I'd have to say I have alot of those similar kid stories considering I was 8 when EQ came out, but I think I really knew, and my dad knew what he had done, when we camped Najena for close to 48 hours for jboots. :O

Jesseca

11-13-2013, 02:35 PM

For me it was the moment that I shouted in zone " I am going to Disney Land " and left for California 2 days later. All of this after finally killing Ragefire, obtaining my epic and camping him for 3 days. The best part was that an FOH cleric tried to claim it and they failed! We had the guild exping in the zone 24/7 for 3 days and my little blue book on hand with phone numbers. ( No texting back then ) =)

Raavak

11-13-2013, 02:43 PM

/playedThis is almost embarrassing to look at now and realize whole years of my life were spent playing, when added up. But it was fun. And I'm here now.

fadetree

11-13-2013, 03:17 PM

I said "lol, INC" at a business meeting.

Itap

11-13-2013, 03:23 PM

I remember saying "lol" out loud when I meant to laugh. I knew then I had a problem

Clark

11-13-2013, 03:41 PM

I skipped a day of school because Faydedar spawned and it was my last fight to complete my druid epic.

But I mean seriously who wouldn't skip school for that?

haha nice!

diplo

11-13-2013, 03:46 PM

Atmas

11-13-2013, 04:06 PM

From the moment I saw my friend playing it.

I grew up playing RPGs both turn based and real time, I spent untold hours in games maximizing my characters and looking for every advancement and best combination possible. I think max stats and credits was all that got me to conclude a game. In addition to a fixation with stats I loved lore. I read my friend's parent's old monster manuals and dungeon master guides and wished that more of our other friends were interested in playing some tabletop games.

I played, I killed a bat, I got xp and something to sell for money, I was hooked. Later on it was drooling about the spells at higher levels, it was crazy pvp fights, raid progression. Pretty much new levels of addiction all the time. I have a lot of tales like everyone else. Playing all night, hiding from parents to play all night (often not even my own).

yraapt

11-13-2013, 04:29 PM

I would occasionally catch myself trying to remember where I last bound to see if I could avoid driving there...

Lagaidh

11-13-2013, 04:30 PM

The first indication was probably the first time I made an out-loud comment about how sitting long enough had made my ass go completely flat.

Like others said... /played combined with how low a level I was for the time.

diplo

11-13-2013, 04:34 PM

This is almost embarrassing to look at now and realize whole years of my life were spent playing, when added up. But it was fun. And I'm here now.

if you think about it, i think other people have spent countless days/months watching tv, playing an xbox or any other game console or even doing some weird shit such as geocaching. entertainment is still entertainment regardless of whatever medium you use ;)

Cookiefist

11-13-2013, 04:42 PM

My only classic/kunark All nighter was camping that robe in dalnir for my necromancer. I collect robes and i believe that one was the final piece i needed. Took all night and 8am in the morning it finally dropped!

Another all nighter or 48 hour benge was when GoD released (i think) whenever the level cap was raised by 5 levels anyway... I was a monk on Stromm and when the day it released 6 of us rushed into Plane of fire and went to tables. It was non-stop pulling, no time to eat RL food only had a 10min break to take a crap! Went from 60-64 there wasn't strong enough to get to 65 and had to goto sleep.

Only other time i can recall doing something similar was during the Progression server was happening. Our guild (realm of insanity) unlocked PoP and were waiting for a GM to release the content to the server and when they finally got around to doing so it was a rush to the best EXP spots in the planes. My group decied to hit Plane of valor i think and killed those annoying crystal spiders. Needless to say most of the guild was 65 within 2 days or so and started our masterful unlocking progression through the content. Good times.

Swish

11-13-2013, 04:51 PM

Spent 9 hours in Lower Guk (I think I was unlucky) camping a Mask of Deception for my rogue alt.

Not even a main, a level 14 (at the time) alt... wtf :/

fadetree

11-13-2013, 05:10 PM

if you think about it, i think other people have spent countless days/months watching tv, playing an xbox or any other game console or even doing some weird shit such as geocaching. entertainment is still entertainment regardless of whatever medium you use ;)

This ^ is really true...

I am ahem an older person lets say and sometimes I get funny looks when I tell people I play everquest...then they go off and do dumb shit like PAY to chase a little white ball around ALL DAY LONG.

Raggnarok

11-13-2013, 07:17 PM

I think when i camped the Fabled Jboots in Nagena for 54 hours straight was the first indication...lol

jijii

11-13-2013, 08:13 PM

when i attached a sock to my ass and pooped into it

Bamz4l

11-13-2013, 08:22 PM

Xadion

11-13-2013, 08:31 PM

I knew I was addicted when...

...I cranked one out and didn't bother to minimize EQ.

fuark

11-13-2013, 08:56 PM

I knew I was addicted when...

...I cranked one out and didn't bother to minimize EQ.

lmao immersion level incomprehensible...

...but also guilty

Swish

11-13-2013, 09:30 PM

http://www.project1999.org/forums/image.php?u=1426&type=sigpic&dateline=1376575017

Best sig I've seen in a while ;)

Heebee

11-13-2013, 10:21 PM

I knew I was addicted when...

...I cranked one out and didn't bother to minimize EQ.

Umbral BP drop?

Ahldagor

11-13-2013, 11:01 PM

a half elf ranger
got lost in the qeynos hills.
gnolls!...gnolls everywhere.

Nune

11-14-2013, 12:21 AM

When I played on live I was the quarterback on the middle school football team. my friend down the street always wanted to play catch and he kept trying to call my house (56k days) so he knocked on my door one day when there was a huge pandemonium twink battle in EC/Nek/WC (TZ on live) i remember camping out, running outside, throwing his football across the street into the pond, then running back inside without actually ever talking to him